Taking the Charger down the strip tomorrow! Tips / Suggestions?

[Cooter]

You didn't break nothing......I'd say you hadda good day.
Seen it before. People run their cars fives times as hard after that first pass chasing some unrealistic win light.
383 has less stroke than a SBC350. And in that heavy ass car with a straight drive, your lucky you ain't coming home on a trailer...

[resq302]

The first time I was waiting for the green light and then go, not go on the last yellow.  After we got back to the staging lanes, I was talking to some other people who have done this more and they said with the set up in the car I have and with the manual trans, I should start going on the first yellow light especially with taking it easy on the clutch and not dumping it.  I'll post the other times tonight when I get to work as the reaction times got A LOT better!

Still pissed at myself that I messed up the shift to second gear on the second run.   

[moparjohn]

Cool Brain!!!  I had a great time at Atco one day we rented the whole track (12 of us) anf it was a blast. Glad I didn't get hooked tho. MPJ

[cdr]

here ya go Brian

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THE NEW DUKE BOY 

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VERY AWESOME MR BRIAN

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I'll try and get some pics posted up here as I know some friends are posting pics on facebook but I don't know if I can steal them and then repost them here.

THERE YA GO, hope your not mad cause i posted them for you.

[resq302]

Thanks, CDR.  I was actually waiting till I got to work to resize them and everything to be able to post them on here.  I also snapped a few pics if the time slips.  A friend of mine from Allpar.com who is also in our Skylands Region of NCPC took a video of the second time I went down.  (figures, the one video he caught, it was the one that I missed second gear!)     He also mentioned to me that he could hear when I was shifting because the tires were chirping which could explain why I was in the 16s and under 90 mph.  Still, for a first time, I had a blast.

Video and other pics soon to come!

[resq302]

Cooter, the only problem I did have with breaking something was not mechanically related.  When I closed my driver side door, I heard something metallic drop, assuming something hit the ground.  After I got back into the car, my inside door release would not work.  I still have to pull the door apart but I am guessing either a clip that held the rod in place broke or popped off as when I tried to roll the window up, I heard some scraping on the glass.  Luckily this was after the third pass and I was able to get the window back up without any problems or scratching of the glass.

On the way home, my temp gauge started acting flakey.  It would go up to 230 and then drop all the way down to 120 for a while, then creep up to the 230 mark again for a while then drop back to 120.  Prior to going to Island Dragway, the temp gauge had been reading 30* over what the actual temp of the coolant was.  As my luck would have it, this was the last show / event of the year for me and I had planned on pulling out the cluster and having the gauge recalibrated.  I hope it is just something with the gauge otherwise it could be more time consuming to try and find the cause.  It could be something as simple as a broken wire, bad temp sending unit (which would suck as I just put an NOS one in there this year), or even a bad thermostat.

[cdr]

the way i post pics on here off facebook is, right click on the picture ,     left click on    view image info ,a blue high lighted line will come up sometimes it is slow to happen,then right click on the highlighted line & hit copy,now to post on here the second lower box above the smiley faces click on it & then paste in the little pop up. you dont have to resize anything.

[resq302]

Im just uploading them now to my photobucket account.  Should be any minute now I can start posting pics.

[cdr]

Im just uploading them now to my photobucket account.  Should be any minute now I can start posting pics.

[resq302]

Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are! 

[TUFCAT]

What did your Dad's GTX turn? 

[NHCharger]

Looks like you had a blast, and no red lights 

[resq302]

waiting to go through tech inspection:






Viper that lost control just after the finish line.  Bounced off of both walls.  Driver was fine.  However, he did drive it there from NY!

[resq302]

What did your Dad's GTX turn? 

Just heads on the show field!     He didnt want to take the chance of something happening to it since it has all original sheet metal, #s matching drive train, original top, etc.  Plus with the fact that only 47 are left known in existance, I wouldn't have wanted him to take it down the track either!

Here is a pic of my friend Blair and me at the line.  His car is a 2010 Challenger, V-8 (dunno what size), manual trans.



1st run and 2nd run.  Im car 306.  (should have stuck to the right lane!)



3rd and 4th run